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“After a two week absence for our KCPT membership drive we are back bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with Kansas City 3 Weeks in Review.” – Nick!

MISSION, KS – TRAFFIC TICKET CAPITAL: Is Mission Kansas on a mission to ticket everybody? A front page story in the Kansas City Star this week calls Mission, KS the ticket capital of Kansas. With police issuing more tickets than there are residents. That amounts to almost two tickets an hour, twenty four hours a day. That means you are nine times more likely to be ticketed in Mission than in Overland Park. Eighteen times more likely than if you happened to be driving through Lee’s Summit.

BROWNBACK SIGNS INCOME TAX PHASE OUT BILL IN OP: The Kansas Governor also uses his bill signing ceremony in Overland Park to lash out at at Missouri Governor Jay Nixon over the cross-border business battle.

TAX VETO OVERRIDE PLANNED IN MISSOURI: Missouri Republican lawmakers say they will seek to overturn Governor Jay Nixon’s recent veto of a massive tax cutting package that include Missouri’s first income tax reductions in 90 years.

POWER & LIGHT 5TH ANNIVERSARY: Opened in 2008 the downtown entertainment district is still being subsidized by city taxpayers to the tune of $14.3 million this year.

HALLS DEPARTING PLAZA: After almost a half a century on the Country Club Plaza, Halls is closing its doors. The department store is consolidating its operations at its Crown Center location leaving the Plaza for the first time without a department store. Who will fill Hall’s space on the Plaza?

SCHLITTERBAHN GROWTH STUNTED: There’s still a lot of barren land instead of shops and tree houses around the perimeter of the Schlitterbahn water park in Wyandotte County, a project that by now was supposed to be a $750 million vacation village.

MU CHANCELLOR DEPARTS: Its front page news this week as Brady Deaton the head of the University of Missouri steps down after 9 years on the job.

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